{"id":447685,"date":"2026-02-01T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447685\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T18:43:07","slug":"bruins-fraser-minten-named-nhl-rookie-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/447685\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruins&#8217; Fraser Minten named NHL Rookie of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/boston-bruins\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins <\/a>forward was named the NHL Rookie of the Month for January, the league announced on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>Minten led all rookies with eight goals in January, and he was also tied for the rookie-lead in points with 14. <\/p>\n<p>The former second-round pick&#8217;s 14 points tie the highest total in a month by a rookie this season. Minten posted a point in eight of Boston&#8217;s 14 games in January, including four multi-point performances. <\/p>\n<p>Minten was acquired by the Bruins from the Leafs on last season&#8217;s trade deadline in exchange for Brandon Carlo, a 2026 first-round pick (top five protected) and a 2025 fourth-round pick (from Philadelphia). <\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old has totalled 14 goals and 15 assists for 29 points in 55 games this season. He leads all rookie skaters in plus-minus this season (plus-20) and is 20th overall in the NHL.<\/p>\n<p>Among rookies, Minten ranks sixth in scoring and fourth in goals. He is the first Bruin to earn Rookie of the Month honours since Jeremy Swayman in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Boston Bruins forward was named the NHL Rookie of the Month for January, the league announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447686,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-447685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}